Losing Binh Dinh : the failure of pacification and Vietnamization, 1969-1971
- Title
- Losing Binh Dinh : the failure of pacification and Vietnamization, 1969-1971 / Kevin M. Boylan.
- Published by
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2016]
- Supplementary content
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Details
- Description
- ix, 366 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Focusing on WASHINGTON GREEN, an ambitious but flawed American-led operation, Boylan tests and ultimately challenges the "Lost Victory" argument of recent Revisionist histories of the Vietnam War. Those histories contend that domestic politics robbed the American military of a triumph it had actually already achieved when it was forced to abandon Vietnam. Taking a much closer look at pacification and Vietnamization in a key province during a pivotal period in the war, Boylan concludes that the "Lost Victory" argument is a weak one at best and clearly compromised by the particular case of Binh Dinh"--
- Series statement
- Modern war studies
- Uniform title
- Modern war studies.
- Subject
- Counterinsurgency
- United States > Army > Airborne Brigade, 173rd
- Vietnam War (1961-1975)
- United States > Army > Airborne Brigade, 173rd > History
- Bình Định (Vietnam : Province) > History
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Campaigns > Vietnam > Bình Định (Province)
- Vietnam > Bình Định (Province)
- 1961-1975
- History
- Counterinsurgency > Vietnam > Bình Định (Province)
- Military campaigns
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Contents
- The "pacified" province -- Fast and thin -- The balance of forces -- Washington Green : phase I -- Overextension -- The red queen's race -- Slowdown -- Aftershocks -- Conclusion : triumph mistaken.
- Call number
- JFE 17-1738
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-351) and index.
- Author
- Boylan, Kevin M., author.
- Title
- Losing Binh Dinh : the failure of pacification and Vietnamization, 1969-1971 / Kevin M. Boylan.
- Publisher
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2016]
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Series
- Modern war studies
- Modern war studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-351) and index.
- Connect to:
- Chronological term
- 1961-1975
- LCCN
- 2016036373
- Other standard identifier
- 40026744330
- ISBN
- 9780700623525 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0700623523
- Research call number
- JFE 17-1738